alarmist

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Noun
  • TikTok, Bluesky, Substack, the gaming platform Discord and other new players, big and small, can all learn from past policies for keeping extremists off the Internet—and return to those content moderation roots.
    Steven Stalinsky, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
  • High-profile extremists of the time such as Richard Butler, Robert Mathews and David Lane supported the plan.
    Paul J. Becker, The Conversation, 5 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • But in a region being fought over by a patchwork of anti-junta rebel groups, the military and pro-military militia – and given the widespread distrust of the Rohingya – information on where exactly his family are, or what will become of them, has not been forthcoming.
    Esha Mitra, CNN Money, 14 Sep. 2025
  • By the finale, the galactic chessboard is crowded with players—emperors, rebels, prophets, impostors—but as Hari Seldon (Jared Harris) warned in the very first episode, the center cannot hold.
    JP Mangalindan, Time, 12 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • That shouldn’t be a problem, as Taylor would never be mistaken for a troublemaker.
    Christian Zilko, IndieWire, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Across China, tens of thousands of people tagged as troublemakers like the Yangs are trapped in a digital cage, barred from leaving their province and sometimes even their homes by the world’s largest digital surveillance apparatus.
    Sheryl Estrada, Fortune, 9 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Although some analysts have suggested Starmer may quietly be pleased with the resignation of his main rival and potential successor, the toppling of Rayner caps off what has been a dreadful summer for Labour, in which the party has lost more ground in the polls to the insurgent Reform UK.
    Max Foster, CNN Money, 5 Sep. 2025
  • This might enable a mission which, for example, a Viper is located covertly next to a safe house known to be used by insurgents.
    David Hambling, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • For Byrne, an apostle of euphoria, all this giddiness seems fitting.
    Seth Abramovitch, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2025
  • The 9th-century monastery rises from the plateau—its stone walls etched with faded medieval frescoes of apostles and Last Judgement scenes.
    Lewis Nunn, Forbes.com, 24 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Host a challenge forum with a proponent, a skeptic, and a synthesizer.
    Curt Steinhorst, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
  • To answer this question, Lam looks to the ancient Chinese philosopher Han Fei, an important proponent of the school of thought known as Legalism.
    Joshua Rothman, New Yorker, 9 Sep. 2025
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“Alarmist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/alarmist. Accessed 16 Sep. 2025.

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